A team of five North High School students placed third overall in the 2024 Long Island Physics Olympics, sponsored by the Long Island Physics Teachers’ Association. This year’s competition, held on March 13 at Farmingdale State College, featured 18 high school teams from Nassau and Suffolk counties.
The Physics Olympics is comprised of five events that challenge students’ knowledge and application of various physics principles.
The North High team took first place in the “Let Us Reflect” event, which involved lasers and mirrors. Other events included a Physics Bowl, with various physics questions; an event in which one student from each team has to try to run with a constant acceleration of .5 m/s^2; an event on Fermi Questions, in which students have to problem solve and estimate their answer to the nearest power of 10; and an event that involves making calculations before running a projectile motion experiment.
Members of North High’s Physics Olympics team are Zachary Hyman, Jacob Levine, Ashley Liu, Joshua Rafaeil, and James (Zheng) Zhou. The faculty advisor is science teacher Alan Schorn.
